Ex-NYPD Homicide detective, multimillion-dollar lottery winner, and Manhattan salsa club owner Nicholas Esperanza is fighting hard to keep it together. Ever since his run-in with Mistress Devona Love - an encounter that shook his manhood to the core - he's been an emotional wreck: convinced Devona is stalking him, his girlfriend Legs is leaving him, and worst of all, that he is slipping into madness.So when the woman who wants him dead kidnaps Legs in exchange for his protection, Esperanza's only choice is to hit the dangerous back streets of Brooklyn and hope that his own mind doesn't pull a double cross. Jamaican drug dealers, Italian mobsters, and Russian gangsters are just a part of the high stakes game. And with time running out, the only way Esperanza's going to win is with fists, bullets, and blood.